When I’ve a problem without a solution, I often set it on
the “back burner.” Sometimes the answer will present itself at the least
expected time and place. I’m out of spaces to stuff my “Aunt Gracie” 1930’s fabric.
Should I stop buying so many vintage prints? Probably. Should I give the ones I
don’t love to a thrift shop? Definitely. Should I thin out the stash by making
a large, scrappy quilt? Absolutely. But so many patterns use more background solids
than scraps: I’d have to buy lots more new fabric to use a little of the old. Then last week, as I
was tuning the orchestra before a performance of Beauty and the Beast, someone
walked to their seat in the audience carrying a lovely Grandmother’s Fan quilt.
It used hundreds of retro 30’s prints for the blades of the fans. But the
background fabric was from prints with a lower color value: shirting. I already
own LOTS of shirting. Problem solved.
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